WOKING HUNDRED 



EAST CLANDON 



in which George Carleton and Edmund Sutton 

 appear as the plaintiffs, while Robert and Dorothy 

 Gavell with Edward and Mary Carleton defended. 10 

 Probably this suit represented a division of property, 

 since the manor was afterf 'ards in the possession of 

 the Carletons. Edward Carleton died in 1582," and 

 in the inquisition taken at his death " his wife Mary 

 is mentioned as having been seised of the manor 

 jointly with him." Their son Edward, who had 

 just come of age at the time of his father's death," 

 evidently sold the property, and it came into the 

 hands of Francis Lord Aungier, who died seised of it 

 in 1632." The Aungiers were Royalists and suffered 

 accordingly. From Gerard son of Francis Lord 

 Aungier it came into the possession of Thomas Earl 

 of Pembroke, whose son sold it in 1692 to Sir Richard 

 Heath of Hatchlands in East Clandon." The Heath 

 family did not keep the manor long ; it was conveyed 

 in 1718 under a private Act " by Sir Richard's sons 

 to Sir Peter King, 18 whose descendant, the Earl of 

 Lovelace, is the present owner. 



Clandon gives an interesting case in Domesday of a 

 manor entirely in the hands of the tenants in villein- 

 age. There is no demesne land mentioned, 

 but the villani paid rent. There was a small 

 separate holding in Clandon claimed by 

 Chertsey Abbey, the overlord of the main 

 part, but taken by Odo of Bayeux. John 

 de Rutherwyk, the stirring and reforming 

 Abbot of Chertsey, temp. Edward II and 

 Edward III, bought out the rights of the 

 villani in the common field called Sigge- 

 worth, 1315. But common fields continued 

 to exist at East Clandon, and are marked 

 on old maps. Between James and Mal- 

 colm's General View of the Agriculture of 

 Surrey, 1794, and Stevenson's General View 

 in 1809, 150 acres were inclosed at Clan- 

 don, perhaps the common fields of the 

 two Clandons. 19 But there is no reference 

 in Sir John Brunner's Return, 1903. In 

 this, however, the final award of the in- 

 closure of the waste is noted on 21 May 1867. 



The church of ST. THOM4S OF 

 CHURCH C4NTERBURT has a chancel 3 1 ft. 

 3 in. long by 1 8 ft. 8 in. wide, nave 

 36ft. 4 in. by 20 ft. 5 in., a short north aisle loft, 

 wide, with a vestry to the west of it, and a south porch ; 

 all internal measurements. 



The nave, which is short for its breadth, is evidently 

 of early origin, probably dating from the end of the 

 I ith century ; but no architectural details of the ori- 

 ginal building are left to give a clue to its exact age. 

 The building originally consisted of this nave and a 

 small chancel, but the latter was rebuilt and consider- 

 ably enlarged about the year 1220, and a few years 

 later a north aisle with an arcade of two bays was 

 added. The western bay is now closed up, and there 

 is nothing to show when this was done ; but it may 

 have occurred as far back as the 1 5th century, when 

 the present wooden bell-turret seems to have been 

 constructed. 



The aisle is now modern, having been rebuilt in 

 1900, when the vestry also was added and the church 

 restored and re-seated. 



In the east wall of the chancel are two 1 3th-century 

 lancet windows with splayed inner jambs and arches. 

 One of the external jamb stones of the south lancet 

 is made of the small pointed head of a rebated and 

 splayed lancet of very early 13th-century or late 12th- 

 century date. On either side of the chancel are two 

 lancets contemporary with the east window, all four 

 more or less renewed. The pair on the north side have 

 plain square jambs and are very much patched. To 

 the south-west is a rectangular low side window with 

 chamfered jambs and lintel, inserted probably in the 

 1 4th century. Opposite to this is a blocked doorway 

 with a shouldered lintel, probably of the date of the 

 chancel. 



The chancel arch, also of the same period, has cham- 

 fered jambs and a two-centred arch with a plain 

 chamfered label ; the angles of the jambs have been 

 partly repaired with oak, and the abaci are now 

 entirely replaced by modern oak copies. 



The arch to the north aisle has a half-round east 



c 1100 



IB 13* cent. 

 14* " 



Hi 15*cent 

 fUJ modem 



S cale of feet 

 PLAN OF EAST CLANDON CHURCH 



respond and a circular pillar partly buried for its west 

 respond ; the filling in of the other bay is plastered 

 on both faces and shows no indication of a blocked 

 arch ; the responds have moulded bases and capitals, 

 and the arch is a pointed one of two chamfered 

 orders with a grooved and hollow-chamfered label ; 

 in the east respond is a vertical groove (now filled in) 

 showing where the arch was boarded up in later times. 

 A plain opening in the wall above, to the east of the 

 arch, is the passage-way to the former rood-loft from 

 the aisle, and contains several steps in the thickness of 

 the wall. 



There are two windows in the south wall of the 

 nave ; the first is a single trefoiled light near the east, 

 and was inserted presumably to light the pulpit ; it is 

 modern externally, but has an old pointed hollow- 

 chamfered rear arch of clunch ; the second is an inser- 

 tion close to it dating from the I5th century and 

 consisting of three trefoiled lights much renewed 

 under a square head with a square-cut moulded label ; 



10 Feet of F. Surr. HiL 7 Eliz. 



11 Parish Register. 



19 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cczzzviii, 

 20. 



18 Ibid. (She remarried, as lady of the 

 manor, in 1583* Parish Register.) 



"Ibid. " Ibid. ccccUvii, 39. 



" Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 4 Will, and 

 Mary. 



17 3 Geo. I, cap. 12. 



18 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 4 Will, and 

 Mary. 



345 



19 The two Clandons are not distinguish - 

 able by name in Domesday. The disputed 

 land had been acquired by the abbey apart 

 from their original holding, and seems to 

 have been in what is now West Clan- 

 don. 



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